Eastern Europe’s small country, Arcaland.
The main ethnic group is Magyar.
In addition to this, it’s a melting pot of races with many German, Slavic,
Jewish, and other settlers.
It’s a small country about the size of Kumamoto Prefecture
that regained independence in 1992.
The main industries are noodle-making and livestock farming.
It’s a scenic country with golden sunsets shining on wheat fields and lakes.
The political system is a constitutional monarchy modeled after Sweden.
The population is 1.84 million.
Mainly because it has no economic value, it has no connection with Japan.
Although diplomatic relations exist, the consulate is in the neighboring country of
Apfelland, which is quite a sorry state.
It relies on Russia and Bosnia for electricity.
As you can see from this, it’s quite a rural place, or to put it nicely, you could call it a
quiet and forgotten kingdom.
In this country, a series of disappearances and coma cases occurred.
It’s not quite an uncommon story, but what’s different from here on is that Crown Princess
MarKoh herself has stepped up to solve this difficult case.
Princess MarKoh Doronea Aedilius is believed by the people to be a priestess with the
power of clairvoyance.
Based on documents from about twenty years ago, the princess sought investigative
cooperation from Japan, which is believed to have the world’s best investigative abilities.
Until it was incorporated into the former Soviet Union, there were many psychics, but after
the incorporation, psychics became scarce due to suppression.
Therefore, she wants to request assistance from Japan, a country with a long history.
The fact that she’s referring to twenty-year-old documents is already wrong, but the idea
‘excellent investigative ability means there must be excellent psychics’ shows the
unimaginable modernity of this country.
In fact, in Arcaland’s thin history textbooks, one noteworthy page mentions that during the
Russo-Japanese War, they supported Japan by sending a small armed yacht, which was like
diving off a cliff into the water for such a small country. Since then, both the people and the
government have consistently claimed to be Japan’s self-proclaimed number-one friendly
nation.
If they’re friends, of course, they’ll help.
There are quite a few such countries.
Japan has many allies in places Japan doesn’t even know about.
And, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs was at a loss.
Serious official documents requesting to send psychics don’t move budgets or anything else.
There was no precedent.
They tried inquiring with the National Police Agency but were rebuffed in Kumamoto
dialect, and the Foreign Ministry staff, while maintaining the formality of not rudely
refusing even a small country, were once again at a loss.
The one who saved this crisis was cross-party Diet members.
They were neither so cold-hearted as to forget a debt of gratitude after one defeat, nor were
their heads screwed on tightly enough to not have some understanding of psychic abilities.
They invested their own money and obtained some funding from august sources to move
the Spiritual Affairs Agency.
The culture of using one’s own money is always beautiful.
The Spiritual Affairs Agency was troubled.
The Spiritual Affairs Agency had been refraining from dispatching ability users abroad in
consideration of relations with neighboring countries, and incidentally, they had no
criminal investigation ability whatsoever.
However, Japan’s specialty is not just using one’s own money.
Japan’s specialties include subcontracting and reading the atmosphere.
Thus, the Spiritual Affairs Agency succeeded in contacting and contracting with civilian
psychics who cooperate with the police organization using Suzuki, a returning employee,
and succeeded in sending them in.
An FAX was sent from the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs to Arcaland saying they
would deal with the matter appropriately, and exactly five minutes later, the Spiritual
Affairs Agency sent an FAX saying they would dispatch psychics.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs didn’t break precedent or anger neighboring countries but
managed to fulfill its obligations in a masterful diplomatic balancing act.
“Thus, Japan’s face was saved once again.
With a great detour and a bit of a wry smile.”
In this work, only happy people who have to do unwilling things with all their might appear.
